Re: Last Apple2 Newsgroup?

[joeschmoe@nospam.org (Joe Seeley)]

In article <34cfd02e.1421645@news.bconnex.net>, CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
>On 28 Jan 1998 17:05:04 GMT, !smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer) wrote:
>
>>>   Looks like you're not getting the full picture-- and that's a
>>>problem at your ISP. Nobody but you and your admins is responsible for
>>>fixing that.
>>
>>Gotta love the tone here, eh? Now, does this answer your question as to why
> the 
>>apple 2 newsgroups are dying?
>
>What tone?  It seems pretty straight forward and to the point to me.
>
>There is nothing we can do to help the guy but he now has the
>information he needs to do something about it.
>
>=== I've had enough SPAM.  Cut the obvious from my address to email me. ===

And actually, yes, thank you very much for the clarification.  While I did not 
get all the posts to this yet, it seems that you are saying my ISP's Usenet 
feed is not getting as much as it should (not even DejaNews gets every 
posting). 

So, I went to DejaNews and did a filter query for comp.emulators.apple2 and 
saw 126 for the month of January thus far.  I should have done this before 
posting (instead of just checking locally). So, I apologize for the erroneous 
statement and like Bob Metcalfe, will gladly eat my words.

BTW, my ISP actually picked up 3 today for some reason.  It usually has a 
decent feed (using DejaNews to compare with) with all the other groups I 
browse.  Also, when I said the newsgroups weren't active I didn't mean 
absolutely no posts but very few (FAQ reposts and spam always seem to get 
through).

However, that is still a tenth of the traffic that goes on in this group and 
has gone down from the past.  This one has gone from 19k in 96 to 16k in 97.  
That's not as bad as I thought it was by a long shot admittedly, maybe it has 
just been the signal to noise ratio.

Sincerely,

Joe Seeley
Ojai CA  USA